Welcome to RSA Bookgroups
The Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) is a consortium of libraries in Central Illinois that share a common library automation system. RSA facilitates sharing of materials among its member libraries providing you with access to materials from up to 193 different libraries. RSA's website is http://alsi.sdp.sirsi.net/client/RSAwebsite
Since we share our material, we try to coordinate our bookgroups through this wiki. Please post your library's schedule if it's available. Thanks!
PLEASE NOTE: THIS PAGE IS FOR 2019
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
January 10th, 2019- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
February 14th, 2019- Before We Were Young by Lisa Wingate
Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.
Book Club est. May 2006
January 2019 - Heartbeat - Sharon Creech
February 2019 - The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
March 2019 - Jesus Cow - Michael Perry
April 2019 - Still Life - Louise Penny
May 2019 - The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani
June 2019 - Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
July 2019 - Blind Your Ponies - Stanley Gordon West
August 2019 - Butterfly Palace - Colleen Coble
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
January 29th-Sing, unburied, sing by Jesmyn Ward
February 26-Crisis by Robin Cook
March 26-7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
April 23-Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
May 28-Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
June 25-Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
July 23-Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
August 27-Star of the North by D.B. John
September 24-The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
October 22-The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
November 26-
December T.B.D.-
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)
January 28 - The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
February 25 - Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan
March 25 - Boy Erased, by Garrard Conley
April 22 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
May 20 - Defending Jacob, by William Landay
June 24 - The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, by Dan Egan
July 22 - The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman
August 26 - The Sun Does Shine, by Anthony Ray Hinton
September 23 - Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
October 28 - The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
November 25 - How to Be a Good Creature, by Sy Montgomery
December 16 - Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
Reader's Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the Don O'Hara Reading Room at the Library.
January The German Girl Armando Lucas Correa
February The Hidden Girl Camilla Lackberg
March Half Broke Horses Jeanette Walls
April Silver Star Jeanette Walls
May Girls of Atomic City Denise Kiernan
June Silent Sisters Diane Chamberlain
July Alice Network Kate Quinn
August Chilbury Ladies Choir Jennifer Ryan
September Winter Garden Kristen Hannah
October Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate
November The Story Keeper Lisa Wingate
December Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann
Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.
January - The Awakening of HK Derryberry by Jim Bradford
February - The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
March- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
April - Love, Lucy by Lucilee Ball
May - Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
June - The Library Book by Susan Orlean
July - American Heart by Laura Moriarty
Aug - Life in a Jar, the Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Teen Book Club- We meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month.
January -
February -
March -
April
May -
June -
July - Paintings from the Cave by Gary Paulsen
August - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
September -
October -
November -
December -
Musings on Main
Book Selections 2019
First Thursdays @ 6:30pm
January 3 - Propose "Cozy Conversation & Chocolate" - Read any Christmas book(s) before this meeting, if you have time!
February 7 - Dream When You're Feeling Blue (Elizabeth Berg)
March 7 - Caroline: Little House, revisited (Sarah Miller)
April 4 - (Easter is April 21) [either or both]
~ The War That Saved My Life (Kimberly Bradley)
~ Four Perfect Pebbles (Lila Perl)
May 2 - The Language of Flowers (Vanesa Diffenabugh)
June 6 - A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving)
July 4 - NO MEETING
August 2 - Educated (Tara Westoverr)
September 6 - Washington Black (Esi Edugyan)
October 4 - NO BOOK SELECTION - POTLUCK
November 1 - The Glass Ocean (Beatriz Williams)
December 6 - How Hard Can It Be? (Allison Pearson)
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
January 14th- Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
February 11th- The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
March 11th- The Lake House by Kate Morton
April 8th- Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson
May 13th- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
June 10th- Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern
July 8th- Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency by Dan Abrams
August 12th- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
September 9th- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
October 14th- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
November 11th- Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict
December 9th- Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
For more information contact the Library at 309-245-2175309-245-2175
Fondulac District Library in East Peoria
YA For All Book Club (YA book discussion for teens and adults), meets second Tuesday of every month at 7pm
Teen Space Book Club (YA book discussion for grades 8 through 12), meets third Tuesday of every month at 7pm
To Be Continued Book Club (A series book club for 5-8th graders), meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30pm
Galesburg Public Library
Please note: we DO loan our book club kits to other libraries for book discussions. Contact Jane (jane.easterly@galesburglibrary.org or 309-343-6118) if you want to borrow one of our kits.
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs
January – Nomadland
February – Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart (includes skype with author)
March – The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
April – When the Emperor Was Divine (Big Read)
May – Spying on Whales by Nick Pyenson
June – Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
July – Something Wonderful by Todd S. Purdum
August – French Exit by Patrick DeWitt
September 2019 - Trooper by Forrest Bryan Johnson
October 2019 - Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen
November 2019 - Endurance by Scott Kelly
December 2019 - Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club
January – End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
February – Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
March – Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis
April – Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (Big Read companion When the Emperor Was Divine)
May – Ringworld by Larry Niven
June – The Big Sheep by Robert Kroese
July – Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison
August – Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
September 2019 – Silverlock by John Myers Myers
October 2019 - One Way by S.J. Morden
November 2019 – The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
December 2019 – All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Food for Thought Book Club
February - Blackout by Marc Elsberg
March - Lights Out by Ted Koppel
April - The Seasons of My Mother by Marcia Gay Harden (Big Read companion to When the Emperor Was Divine)
May - The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman – LP available
June – Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
July - The Law of the Jungle by Paul M. Barrett
August - The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
September - Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
October – The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
November - The Jesus Cow by Michael Perry
Turning Pages Book Club
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 17 years in January. Meeting are held once a month at the Spring Bay Branch. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections, and the past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting.
Reading
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Author
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Meeting
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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
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Ann B Ross
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Feb 4
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Running Blind
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Lee Childs
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Mar 4
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The Cat Who Knew A Cardinal
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Lillian Braun Jackson
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April 1
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The Book Thief
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Marcus Zusak
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May 6
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The 17th Suspect
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James Patterson
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Jun 3
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead
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Jul 1
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The Last Original Wife
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Dorothea Benton Frank
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Aug 5
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Before We Were Yours
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Lisa Wingate
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Sep 5
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The Things We Keep
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Sally Hepworth
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Oct 7
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A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman
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Nov 4
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A Light in the Window
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Jan Karon
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Dec 2
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Alaskan Holiday
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Debbie Macomber
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Jan 6, 2020
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Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
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Robin Sloan
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Feb 3, 2020
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Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2019(Our 16th year)
January 28
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Cuckoo's Calling
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Galbraith, Robert
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February 25
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Almost Sisters
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Jackson, Joshilyn
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March 25
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Celine
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Heller, Peter
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April 29
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Hidden Figures
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Shetterly, Margot Lee
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May 20
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Story of Arthur Truluv
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Berg, Elizabeth
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June 24
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Bluebird, Bluebird
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Locke, Atttica
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July 29
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Educated
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Westover, Tara
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August 26
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Between You and Me
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Wiggs, Susan
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Sept 30
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IQ
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Ide, Joe
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October 28
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Last Castle
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Kiernan, Denise
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November 25
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Great Alone
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Hannah, Kristin
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December 9th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2019
& get our new list for 2020
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Blog available online at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Great Reads
Great Reads Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets from September through May (except for December) on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
Date |
Title |
Author |
July 1, 2019
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The New Iberia Blues
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James Lee Burke |
September 11, 2019
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Go, Went, Gone
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Jenny Erpenbeck
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October 8, 2019
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Educated |
Tara Westover
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November 13, 2019
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Where the Crawdads Sing |
Delia Owens
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December 2019
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TBA
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TBA |
January 8, 2020 |
Warlight |
Michael Ondaatje |
February 19, 2020 |
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border |
Francisco Cantu |
March 11, 2020 |
Americanah |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
April 8, 2020 |
Washington Black |
Ese Edugyan |
May 13, 2020 |
There Will Be No Miracles Here: a Memoir |
Casey Gerald |
Mystery Book Club
Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets the fourth Wednesday every month from August to May at 7:00 pm (*with slight deviations for November and December to accommodate holidays). The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
Date |
Title |
Author |
July 1, 2019
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The New Iberia Blues
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James Lee Burke |
Patron-run book clubs
These groups use Macomb Public Library for interlibrary loan of book club titles, but these groups are not directly sponsored by our library.
Book Club 1
This group usually meets the final Friday of the month and selects the title for the next month on their meeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a selection.
Book Club 2
This group meets on the first Friday of the month. The leader has expressed willingness to switch discussion dates of particular titles as needed to accommodate for conflicts with groups from other libraries. The group requests 8 copies for each discussion. All selections for this group are borrowed in large print format to accommodate more seasoned readers from a local nursing home.
Date
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Title |
Author |
January 4, 2019 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Betty Smith
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February 1, 2019
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Beneath the Scarlet Sky
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Mark Sullivan
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March 1, 2019
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Little Women
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Louisa May Alcott
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April 5, 2019
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People of the Book
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Geraldine Brooks
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May 3, 2019
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Small Great Things
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Jodi Picoult
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June 7, 2019
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The Prodigal Summer
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Barbara Kingsolver
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July 5, 2019
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Mornings on Horseback
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David McCullough
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August 2, 2019 |
All Things Wise and Wonderful |
James Herriot |
September 6, 2019 |
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Gail Honeyman
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October 4, 2019 |
Every Breath
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Nicholas Sparks
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November 1, 2019 |
Where the Crawdads Sing |
Delia Owens |
December 6, 2019 |
Anne of Green Gables |
L.M. Montgomery |
There are also book clubs affiliated with our local university, so a few patrons sometimes request titles for those as well. Those patrons usually place their requests on RSACat with no assistance, so I am usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long they may be in use unless the patron expresses concern about being able to renew a title. These particular patrons are usually very responsible about their usage, though, and the titles are usually not in high demand at the time these patrons place their requests.
When we see there is a situation of a book club title not being easily available, we expand our searches to I-Share, SHARE Illinois libraries, and non-RSA libraries in our region.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
January 3, 2019 -- To Kill a Mockingbird (movie) Harper Lee
February 7, 2019 -- What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! Agatha Christie
March 7, 2019 -- The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
April 4, 2019 -- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
May 2, 2019 -- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
June 6, 2019 -- In Pieces, Sally Field
July 4, 2019 -- No Book Group due to holiday
August 1, 2019 -- A House Without Windows, Nadia Hashimi
September 5, 2019 -- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
October 3, 2019 -- Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
November 7, 2019 -- The Lost City of Z, David Grann
December 5, 2019 -- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome!
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal meets on the 3rd Wednesday every other month
January 16 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Hinton
March 20 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
May 15 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
July 17 - One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting by Marie Monville
September 18 - The President is Missing by Bill Clinton & James Patterson
November 20 - The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
Contact our volunteer book club leader, Pixie for more information: ask at normalpl.org
We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 2 and 6:45 (same book both times) I ORDER 38 BOOKS EACH MONTH (sorry to deplete the supply)
January - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
February - As Bright As Heaven
March - Rebecca
April - Educated by Tara Westover
May - Stars are Fire by Shreve
June - Sometimes I Lie
July - The Great Alone by Hannah
August - American Marriage by Jones
Sept - Alternate Side by Quindlen
Oct - Button Man
Nov - Stranger in the Woods by Finkle
Dec - Elevation by King
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
All are welcome
ABC book club
Meets at Ashland location on the third Tuesday of each month @ 6:30pm
Bookies--meet in the Library on the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 PM
July 2019 - Rosemary: the hidden Kennedy daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
August 2019 - Matilda by Roald Dahl
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
June 2019 - One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
July 2019 - 100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
August 2019 - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
June 2019 - The Likeness by Tana French
July 2019 - Reader's choice of books about actors/ performers/ artists
August 2019 - The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
June 2019 - Born a Crime: stories from a South African childhood by Trevor Noah
July 2019 - Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
August 2019 - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Pardon our Youth--meets in the library on the third Monday of each month at 6:00 PM. This is an adult group reading Young Adult titles.
June 2019 - All the Little Lights by Jamie McGuire
July 2019 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
August 2019 - The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
June 2019 - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
July 2019 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
August 2019 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
Young Adult Book Club -- Meets at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 7pm on the third Tuesday of each month.
January BYO Book (Swap Reading Recommendations with Others)
February Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
March Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
April Carnegie's Maid
May A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
June Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
July Where the Crawdad sings (maybe)
August
We meet the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM in the Main library study rooms. (We do not meet during June/July, due to Summer Reading.)
Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
Questions about this wiki?
Contact Beth Duttlinger
bethd@lmelibrary.org
Lillie M. Evans Library District
207 N Walnut, PO Box 349
Princeville, IL 61559
lmelibrary.org
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